Quiescence unveils a novel mutational force in fission yeast
To maintain life across a fluctuating environment, cells alternate between phases of cell division and quiescence. During cell division, the spontaneous mutation rate is expressed as the probability of mutations per generation (Luria and Delbrück, 1943; Lea and Coulson, 1949), whereas during quiesce...
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| Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2017-12-01
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| Series: | eLife |
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| Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/27469 |